Thomas Allmer

Critical Theory and Social Media

Between Emancipation and Commodification

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines both the constraints and emancipatory potential of new media. Allmer explores to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthening the idea of the communication and network commons and a commons-based information society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138808768
• ISBN-10: 1138808768
• Artikelnr.: 41853159

Autorenporträt

Thomas Allmer is Lecturer in Social Justice at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His research focuses on critical theory and political economy of media and communication. He is the author of Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. Critical Theory and
Dialectics 2. Critical Internet and Social Media Studies 3. Critical
(Internet) Privacy Studies: Ideology Critique 4. Critical (Internet)
Surveillance Studies: Commodity Critique Part II: Case Study 5. Traditional
and Critical Research of Privacy and Surveillance on Social Media 6.
Empirical Results: (Dis)Advantages of Social Media Part III: Techno-Social
Revolution 7. Critical Theory, Dialectics, and the (Dis)Advantages of
Social Media 8. Conclusion